today is going to earn about 75 cents on a dollar of what his dad did back in 1980 with just that high school degree. so, essential to get some education skill after high school and get some work experience. all right, policy director for the young invincibles offering some very valuable advice. thank you for your time this afternoon. thank you, mara. amelia earhart takes flight. amelia rose earhart. following in her relative s footsteps. the 30-year-old weather and traffic anchor for kusa in denver will fly around the world next summer. her two-week, 100-hour flight will trace the route taken by the elder earhart before she disappeared over the south pacific. when i think about the best way to honor, being a namesake of amelia, it s all about adventure. not a lot of things we re entitled to in life. we re entitled to developing our own adventure whether it s leaving the house or flying all
you that you will answer differently? i stand by my statement that i misspoke and i apologize. thank you. joining me now is that reporter from kusa in denver. thanks for joining my. al, thanks for having me. your interview with congressman coffman got a big reaction in colorado. in an op-ed, congressman coffman is calling his comment bone headed. his comments were tape recorded by a supporter. someone who came to the fundraise tore koe n donated, and those comments were posted on youtube and facebook, and they were brought to our attention. i understand you had, for
then a station in denver caught up with the congressman. tuesday passed and to ask him about this and asked him about why he had made the statement in the first place. here is what congressman had to say. after your comments about the president, do you feel that voters are owed a better explanation than just i misspoke? i think that as i stand by my statement, they misspoke, and i apologize. okay, who are you apologizing to. i stand by my statement, i misspoke and apologize. we talk to you all of the time, you re very forth coming. who is telling you not to talk. i stand by my statement that i misspoke and i apologize. did you say it because you would never say something like that in the suburbs? is there anything i can ask
days, tried to get a comment from him. you wanted to interview him, and we just saw a tape, you finally tracked him down, how did that happen? we don t ambush people, we schedule interviews. so for five days we talked to the campaign and said he needs to clear the air, we can do a scheduled interview, or we can have an unscheduled interview. they didn t return our call sos we had a closed door interview. that s how he kept going with this robotic response, how surprised were you at his response? i was very surprised. you have to keep in mind that while congressman coffman may not be known well nationwide, he is the face of the republican party in colorado. when president obama comes to down, it s congressman coffman that delivers the republican response. he informs denver yesterday and
blatant than deciding to sit down with clarence thomas wife for a, quote-unquote, interview. the signal there is clear. reporter: we clearly know his strategy. yeah. reporter: we know the strategy and if you re mitt romney and rick perry and to a lesser extent, the rest of the field, bachmann, gingrich, santorum, what do you do here? he s probably going to hold on to a small but concerted part of the republican base yeah. reporter: will be with him just to sort of stick it to the elites. chuck, let s talk about, speaking of the elites, he won t like that segue, mitt romney is in an interview, he hasn t talked a lot about other states, but he got asked about it in relation to of all people tim tebow be an nbc station, i want to make sure i get this right, kusa in denver, let s listen to this, i want to talk about it when we get back. the big deal in colorado these days, i only bring that